"I think that the attorney general's job is to represent the will of the people of Kentucky," Bevin told TPM on Friday. "I think he's abdicating on that responsibility. And it's disappointing to me that he's doing so because the taxpayers of Kentucky have to pay outside counsel to do the job we're already paying him to do."

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway (D) recently announced that he would not appeal a ruling from a federal judge that said that Kentucky had to recognize same-sex marriages in other states. In an interview with TPM, he said, "I thought long and hard. I thought about the arc of history."

The state's governor, Steve Beshear (D), said he planned to appeal the ruling.